[Python-Dev] mingw support? (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Aug 8 18:29:03 CEST 2010

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai at in-nomine.org> wrote:

-On [20100808 02:23], Nick Coghlan (ncoghlan at gmail.com) wrote:

This used to be more of an issue because MS didn't provide a decent free compiler for their platform. These days (since the release of Visual Studio Express), we expect that people willing to use (or support) a closed OS can cope with also using the free-as-in-beer closed compiler provided by the vendor of that OS. You don't even need VS Express. Install Windows SDK 7.1 and the compilers are supplied with it. Less clutter if you prefer the command line.

MS may have improved the tools they release with the SDK to the point where they can build a VS solution file (I haven't tried that in years). Historically (i.e. before the first express version of Visual Studio), there were a lot of hoops to jump through to get something that could handle the complete build chain. It was painful enough back when I first started hacking on the Python core that I gave up and just switched to developing on Linux instead.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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